Lightweight, S3-compatible object storage server with built-in web dash
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HN · launched Mar 1, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 59%) · 0 views
Niche: cloud storage and backup management tools · 118 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -23% · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial While an embedded web dashboard and basic HTTP multipart file upload server are straightforward, implementing robust AWS S3 API compatibility (v4 signatures, multipart upload state machines, bucket policies, and XML serialization) requires meticulous systems work.
What it would actually take: A developer would write a Go or Rust server handling HTTP requests and mapping them to a local filesystem or key-value store. The core difficulty lies in full S3 API compliance, specifically AWS Signature Version 4 authentication verification, XML request/response protocol correctness, range requests, and robust chunked multipart uploads.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1961 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1175 of 1962 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 121 days after the earliest competitor.
- Silo · hn · 2026-08-06 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- ZeroFS · hn · 2026-07-02 · 128 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- storage-bench · github · 2026-10-15 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- TidesDB · hn · 2025-11-09 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Twig · hn · 2026-10-20 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Tonbo · hn · 2025-12-17 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- ZeroFS · hn · 2026-06-11 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- s2.dev: Streams as a cloud storage primitive · yc · 2025-11-08 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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